|
|
31 Articles match "Media","United Kingdom"
The Latest from the Communities and Networks Connection Community
|
Monday, February 15, 2010
A communication by Smári McCarthy of the Icelandic Digital Freedoms Society on the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative :
This really important project , endorsed by the P2P Foundation, was also reported on BBC News :
“In recent months a group of local and international people has been working on an initiative here in Iceland to propose reforms in media- and freedom of expression law, with the goal of creating the best environment for publication in the world. The method has been to adopt the strongest protective laws that exist in the world, such as the Swedish press freedom law, the Belgian source- and communications protection law, the New York Libel Terrorism Protection law, and so on, and bundle them into a broad proposal.
|
|
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
to be better aligned with the more consumer-centric, social media-focused EOS group(s). Eos was not mentioned at the Cisco Collaboration Summit and suddenly it is at the center of a social media social networking storyline that has consumer and enterprise implications.
That said, this theme aligns perfectly with a recent report (see below) Alice Wang and I authored on social media and social networking that addressed similar issues (e.g., For some time I've pointed out the need for the Cisco groups responsible for enterprise collaboration (including unified communications, mobile, WebEx, etc.)
|
|
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Whatever your opinions of Rage Against the Machine, Simon Cowell, Facebook or Joe Mcelderry, this has been a great show of social media might.
Why does this classify as an impressive victory for social media ? This seems like an appropriate way to end 2009 – a big year for Social Media .
...Tags: Rage Against the Machine on Facebook
Rage Against the Machine (RATM) have just had their first UK Number 1.
|
|
The Best from the Communities and Networks Connection Community
|
•
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Again this week, Twitter has been high on the media agenda. We wrote earlier this week about how brands should use social media marketing instead of email . And any brand looking to innovate with Twitter should consider each of these eight areas in its social media strategy. Tags: social media marketing Comcast freshminds web2.0 As is always the case during a time of innovation, brands are experimenting with lots of different ways of using Twitter. Some successfully and some less so.
|
|
•
Monday, February 23, 2009
Wal-Mart have a chaquered history with social media (the infamous Wal-Marting Across America campaign, for example), but they are doing some great things at the moment. Business media: trends for 2009 (businessmedia.co.uk)
Tags: social media Virtual community marketing Asda Online Community Examples starbucks freshminds web2.0 For the second in our series of Online Community Examples , we move on to look at online communities in the retail industry.
Online communities in the retail industry
|
|
|
|
•
Friday, February 27, 2009
This is a great example of using social media and online communities in a museums context. But it is also a great example of When thinking about how to use social media and online communities, it is important for brands and organisations to explore what it is they can uniquely offer. Other media can sometimes be a more effective way of communicating: video can be a great way to engage some people , others want to express themselves with images or objects. Nine museums in the UK launch Creative Spaces
This week in the UK saw the beta launch of Creative Spaces .
|
|
•
Saturday, March 14, 2009
The report from Nielsen clearly highlights the growth in consumer use of social media - it is now visited more regularly than email with one out of eleven minutes worldwide (one in every six minutes in the UK) spent on these sites. When I speak at marketing conferences, I like to ask the audience whether they spend more on email marketing or on social media. I was the expert blogger in this week’s edition of Management Today on innovation in business. Having written about the Nielsen Global Faces and Networked Places report earlier this week, I decided to build on this post
|
|
•
Thursday, August 13, 2009
At it’s very simplest this is a great example of how social media work, and in particular of the kind of dynamics that exist in an online community :
With less than 12 months to go before the next General Election in the UK, the public are having a debate about an issue that is always a major component of any election campaign, and they are doing so in social media. We’ve posted before about how Social Media Image by alice-palace via Flickr
In the last two days, almost 11,ooo different people on Twitter have entered into a debate about the benefits of the UK healthcare
|
|
|
|
•
Thursday, March 5, 2009
There are many great example of not-for-profits using social media and it is sometimes the case that this sector can be more innovative than the private sector. A great resource for information on not-for-profits and social media is Steve Bridger ’s nfp 2.0 We’re written before about some great examples in this space, from the well-documented role of online communities in the Obama campaign , to A busy week at FreshNetworks has meant that we’re a little later than expected bringing you the third in our series of Online Community Examples . After looking
|
|
•
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Whatever your opinions of Rage Against the Machine, Simon Cowell, Facebook or Joe Mcelderry, this has been a great show of social media might.
Why does this classify as an impressive victory for social media ? This seems like an appropriate way to end 2009 – a big year for Social Media .
...Tags: Rage Against the Machine on Facebook
Rage Against the Machine (RATM) have just had their first UK Number 1.
|
|
•
Monday, March 9, 2009
Tags: social media qualitative market research Social Media Virtual community online market research freshminds Blog innovation market research United Kingdom Social networks Matt Rhodes web2.0 Two-thirds of the world’s entire online population have visited ‘Member communities’, including social networks , online communities and blogs , according to Nielsen’s Global Faces and Networked Places report. This places social networks and online communities as the fourth most popular category of online activities, ahead of personal email.
|
|
|
|
•
Friday, October 16, 2009
Two things this week have shown the weakness of the traditional media outlets in the face of online communities of people. Both instances show the role that Twitter, and online communities more broadly, have to play in questioning, challenging and debating issues raised by traditional media outlets. Much more than traditional media could ever do.
Image by nicdalic via Flickr
On Monday a judge issued an embargo on the Guardian newspaper to stop it reporting a question that was asked in the House of Commons.
|
|
•
Thursday, February 5, 2009
A new report out this week suggests that the biggest hindrance in the adoption of social media is a lack of knowledge. The statistics, from MarketingSherpa , look at the barriers that organisations cite as having stopped them from adopting social media marketing techniques in their firm.
Of the 1,886 firms interviewed who had not embraced social media as a marketing tool, 46% cited a lack of knowledgeable staff as being a significant reason for this. The second most popular response was an inability to measure ROI , with 43% of firms claiming that this was preventing them from adopting social media marketing.
|
|
